02456cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000230011324500220013626400510015830000470020933600260025633700260028233800360030850000310034450802030037552012300057853400740180865300220188265300290190465300460193365300320197985600640201185600430207577524UtSlPG20260610134809.0mcr n260607r20251927utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPZ1 aRobertson, Lida B.10aJakie's Christmas 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-12-22  aSusan E., David E. Brown, Andrew Butchers, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  aJakie's Christmas by Lida B. Robertson is a children’s Christmas short story written in the early 20th century. Centered in the rural American South, it explores a poor boy’s search for Santa and discovers instead the deeper meaning of generosity, love, and community.

Jakie, an orphaned country boy living with his grandmother Mamsy, sees a picture promising Santa’s gifts in town and secretly sets out to find him. After a farmer gives him a ride and a few nickels, the child becomes lost and freezing, until a kind young woman, Frances Bestor, rescues him, outfits him warmly, buys him a toy, and even provides a new cloak for Mamsy and a hidden sack of Christmas treats. Grateful, Jakie and Mamsy send her a turkey and fatwood as their own love-gifts. Jakie then brings cheer to their lonely neighbor, Mr. Cripple Jim, persuading him to hang a stocking and, on Christmas Eve, sneaks in dressed as Santa to fill it. On Christmas morning Jakie finds an express wagon and a harness for his billy goat, shares his stocking with Mamsy, and Mr. Cripple Jim rejoices over his surprises. The story affirms that the true Santa is anyone who acts with tender-hearted generosity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cBoston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1927  aChristmas stories  aBoys -- Juvenile fiction  aGrandparent and child -- Juvenile fiction  aAlabama -- Juvenile fiction4 uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x030743233&seq=140uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77524